Pakistan is not secular and will never be.
We believe Islamic guidelines will ensure a prosperous society since Islam holds everyone equally accountable in the court and makes no exception.
Also the Islamic guidelines in no way impede the scientific advancement of a people, actually the emphasis in Islam to learn everything and to unravel the mysteries of the world provided a great impetus to the early Muslims in their bid to educate themselves and work tirelessly to achieve scientific excellence.
Islam defines very clear guidelines and there is a lot of margin in the implementation which gives clear flexibility to the legislators to amend and modify the laws in keeping with the situational requirements in accordance with the time and event that are certain to bring about great changes in the social setup.
It is proven by our history that the guidelines of Islam do provide a just and emancipated society where people are not bound by their parentage, caste or creed. The success story of these very principles spans centuries and across the globe.
The threat of Islamic laws is mostly to the political elite who will be much more accountable, even the concept of presidential immunity is actually against Islam which clearly gives the right to any citizen (regardless of the religion) to take the ruler to court.
The point is that in Pakistan the issue was not of failure in thought but in implementation, when implementation fails then eventually the plan is also doubted which is why there are many who deem that the woes of Pakistan is because of an Islamic identity.
This is certainly not the case, the problem is the lapse in the implementation of our laws and not with the ideology. The ideology which is based on the principles of equality, justice and fair play for all is rock solid and acceptable to an overwhelming majority of Pakistanis.
Also if we do abandon the Islamic laws to the likes of the terrorists then we shall be committing a great crime in letting these rascals be the flag bearers of our way of life.
They know zero about Islamic law and thrive on ignorance and that is the reason they resort only to terrorism, because they have no logic and weight in the eyes of Islam for their actions and their claimed rights to carry out these actions.
I love your reply brother. It is straight to the point and very honest IMO. I could not have explained it any better myself! Well done